LaurenceT showed me his equipment (and I liked it 😉🤫🤭)

[imakebeer]

Can I just give a big shout out to @LaurenceT - I'm new to the forum and just getting started with astronomy and astrophotography, and he very kindly invited me to visit him at home to take a look at his many telescopes and tripods and various other boxes of astro-wizardry. I'm looking very seriously at the moment at buying something very similar, but never having seen this gear in the flesh it was a real help to get a good idea of the look and feel of it, how it's going to work in practice and whether it's going to work for me.

Thanks buddy, it was a really worthwhile trip - hopefully at some point in the future I'll be in a position to pay it forward to another newbie 👍🔭

[LaurenceT]

My pleasure Matt, it was great meeting you.